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Table 4 Guidance for the conversion of vasopressor doses in the calculation of the cardiovascular SOFA component

From: The SOFA score—development, utility and challenges of accurate assessment in clinical trials

Drug

Dose

Norepinephrine equivalent

Epinephrine

0.1 μg/kg/min

0.1 μg/kg/min

Norepinephrine

0.1 μg/kg/min

0.1 μg/kg/min

Dopamine

15 μg/kg/min

0.1 μg/kg/min

Phenylephrine

1.0 μg/kg/min

0.1 μg/kg/min

Vasopressin

0.04 U/min

0.1 μg/kg/min

  1. Adapted from the protocol for Khanna et al. [24] and Vincent et al. [5] and Liu et al. [25]
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